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Malaria Epidemic Claims 50 Lives In Assam

...en able to check the spread of the disease." The northeast is a known malaria zone with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. "We have enough stocks of anti-malaria drugs and diagnostic kits. Doctors and paramedics are working overtime in vulnerable areas," the minister said. Anti-malar...

Malaria Epidemic Sweeps Northeast India

...ple have died from malaria in an epidemic sweeping northeast India and another 25,000 have fallen sick from the...tive steps and cure those hit by the disease. The northeast is a known malaria zone with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. He said that anti...

Assam’s Malaria Death Toll Rises To 75, More People Affecte

...tribal custom in parts of Assam, Tripura and other northeast states. "Our health workers are now working overti...hospital when someone is sick," Barman said. The northeast is known as "malaria zone" with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. At least 230 p...

Death Toll from Malarial Epidemic Raises To 75

...someone is sick. In major parts of Assam and other northeast Indian states, superstitious beliefs and black magic play a large part in tribal customs. India's northeast is known as a "malaria belt" with the disease claiming some 500 lives annually. At least 230 people ...

Malaria Epidemic Forces Assam Rebels Out Of The Jungle

...al of the Central Reserve Police Force said. The northeast is a known "malaria zone" with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. At least 230 people died in Assam last year of malaria, which is caused by a small parasite spread through mosquito bites. The dangerous malaria season lasts three...

Death from Cholera Rises in Angola

...f cholera have been reported. Uige, a city 300km northeast of Luanda has also reported its first case on Wednesday. 11 of the country's 18 provinces have reported cholera to date. While the World Health Organisation considers the cholera fatality rate of one percent as average, the fatality rate in Angola ...

Investigators Find Poisonous Chemicals In Four More Drugs In China

...injection produced by a chemical works in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The spurious medicines have led to four deaths. The provincial Food and Drug Administration have announced that diethylene glycol, which was earlier found in "Armillarisini A injection" that had killed at least five p...

Illegal Drug Trafficking Pose A Great Threat For HIV Epidemic In Northeast

...als illegally trafficked from Myanmar into India's northeast has led to a rise in drug abuse and an HIV epidemi...IV to people who have never used drugs." India's northeast - Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Tripura - has been dec...

HSE Plans for Health Service in Northeast

...15//. The five existing general hospitals in the northeast are located in Dundalk, Drogheda, Navan, Monaghan. and Cavan. After the death of Pat Joe Walsh at Monaghan General Hospital last year consultants have been appointed to examine the health care system in the region. The existing services of the fi...

India's Northeast Students to Get Satellite-based Education Soon

Students in India's northeast will soon have satellite-based educational facilities to enhance their knowledge base. // Three states - Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland - will be included in the first phase of the hi-tech facilities using the services of EDUSAT, a dedicated satelli...

Resurgence of Bird Flu in Laos

... that 78 farms in Nakhon Panom, 740 km (460 miles) northeast of Bangkok, were infected with bird flu shortly after the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirmed an outbreak in a suburb of the capital, Vientiane. The FAO said that it is investigating whether the outbreaks in the two countries we...

Delhi Police Quiz Suspects In Girl's Kidnapping

... searching several suspected locations in east and northeast Delhi," Khatri told IANS. The girl told the police that two youths dragged her into their car while she was on her way to school at around 11 a.m. She added that they put something on her face after which she lost consciousness. In a similar incide...

Heart Procedure numbers go haywire in an Ohio City

...teries//. Elyria is a small industrial city in northeast Ohio. Doctors here , more than anywhere else in the country, would suggest their patients to go for Angioplasty-- a treatment that typically involves threading balloon catheters through arteries and sometimes placing drug-coated stents to unblock the...

Cambodia hit by two new bird flu outbreaks

...he Tbong Khmum district, 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of the capital. Most of them had died there by Friday, he said. The rest were slaughtered by the health officials. The official who was responsible for prevention of movement of the birds was dismissed. Another outbreak was found in close by Bathea...

Ex-drug Addict has set up Support System for Drug Victims

...ons". Members of NGOs working with addicts in the northeast state of Manipur were in Rajahmundry for a meet on community-led intervention to prevent AIDS organised by Care India, an international NGO supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "Though I am still taking alternative drugs to get rid o...

Remove Stigma to Defeat HIV/AIDS in India, says UN Envoy

...itive people, second only to South Africa. India's northeast has been declared as one of the country's high-ris...," Sadik said. Gullible young girls from India's northeast are being forced into prostitution in the metropolises after being lured by organised syndicates pro...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...s are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Experts say over 60 percent of the cases in the five states are found in Bihar alone. Treatment of the disease currently costs over Rs.12,000. "When our income is less than Rs.1,500 a month, how can we afford treatment that costs us over ...

Heavy Industry Could Trigger Lung Cancer Risk

...d compared them with 339 healthy women in Teeside, northeast England, reported Newswise wire. Rates of lung cancer among women are high in this particular area of England, where heavy industries expanded rapidly throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and where poverty and deprivation are common, according to...

Polio Back in Kenya: WHO

...ee-year-old Somali child at Dadaab refugee camp in northeast Kenya. It is linked to a strain found in Somalia, which had reported outbreak of polio cases in 2005, according to the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina. WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib said the successful control of polio worldwide would depend on era...

Smoky Haze Cause Health Problems in Singapore

...e last month is now expected to dissipate when the northeast monsoon douses the fires raging in Indonesia's Kalimantan and Sumatra, far later than the original October prediction. Experts said intermittent showers are unlikely to do more than bring temporary relief to the city-state where the Pollutant Stand...

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